In 2022, the Rockefeller Foundation put out one of those Food reports that read like ‘How can we save the planet by taking away all pleasure in food and stripping all food consumption down to fundamental metrics relating to health and sustainability’. I’m drawn to these ‘Future of Food’ type reports. Firstly, there are aContinue reading “The ‘True’ Cost of Food”
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The Covid Inquiry
The British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has announced that a public inquiry into the government’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic will begin in spring 2022. https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/uk-prime-minister-johnson-announces-covid-inquiry-in-spring-2022/2239076 I suspect that certain areas will be off-limits to the Inquiry. I’m not optimistic the inquiry will investigate the following: 1) whether the benefits of lockdowns in terms ofContinue reading “The Covid Inquiry”
Global Governance is Here (And We Didn’t Even Notice)
Have you ever wondered why most of the world adopted the same tools to combat the Covid19 pandemic in 2020? Surely, different countries should have adopted different strategies based on their own senses of democracy and justice, their histories and their constitutions. Yet, instead, we saw them all – except Sweden – throwing out theirContinue reading “Global Governance is Here (And We Didn’t Even Notice)”
Corporations are Undermining Democracy
Governments working hand-in-hand with Corporations is never a good idea. Both of these structures have a lot of power. In a well-functioning capitalist economy, each structure would be antagonistic to the other. Problems arise if the objectives of these functions start aligning with each other. Such alignment is not going to be healthy for democracy.Continue reading “Corporations are Undermining Democracy”
Atticus Fox 